Articles tagged 'zfs'

In a previous post, Thumper: Putting Blastwave on ZFS, I quickly saw some information and jumped to completely the wrong conclusion. In the comments, Boyd kindly pointed out that I should probably investigate it a little more thoroughly. So I have. Just to recap, effectively I am trying to install software, with pkgadd onto a ZFS filesystem. The full filesystem is 17 terabytes, and still has 17TB available. The steps I followed were: Read more…

Since the root file system is a meagre 11GB, I figured I'd try and use my ZFS pool for installing Blastwave which is a system built on top of Solaris' own packaging mechanism with access to lots of extra software that I can't live without. Like sudo for example, at least until I figure out how the Solaris native RBAC mechanism works! So, I did something along the lines of: Read more…